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Hi Isabelle,
"tenir de" and "tenir à" have different meanings.
tenir de (something) as in your sentence, means "to be made up of (something)".
the context is a description of a frenchman, a baron in 1940's france, who's providing shelter for a resistance chief:
"Un long nez, le teint brule par le soleil et le vent, des yeux petits et durs, il tient a la fois du loup et du renard."
When...
the context is a conversation between two resistance chiefs brought to London during the war; the narrator is amazed at the other man, who he doesn't know, who has been describing his amazement and love for the people he's worked with back in Fran...
Hi,
I'm not sure you translated this correctly. Having the context, or at least the prior sentence, would really help.
"Mais je n'en avais pas eu la notion tant mon voisin avait su me conduire sur les pas de cette silhouette dessechee..."
I'm not sure this is a good translation, into modern american english:
But I had the idea that my neighbor had known how to g...
Hello,
"un peu" is the key here.
"Leurs histoires vives" would mean exciting stories, with a lot of action happening, or at least described because it wouldn't exclude stretching the truth a little bit.
But "un peu" before an adjective and whil...
Tia, what an interesting phrase. So the Belgians are older than she, and are soldiers? I am thinking this is more like tall tales, soldiers are telling lies or fibs that have little life or little truth. So tall tales is my guess, they are telling...
"Les Belges la faisaient rire par leur accent and leurs histoires un peu vives."
The "la" (she) here is a young french farm girl.
Isabelle
Tia,
Frank taught me that "livre osé" means risque book. Could you give more of the sentence? This might help give more of the context.
Pam
"...leurs histoires un peu vives";
does this translate as "their slightly risque stories"?
tia
isabelle
"paquets" is an informal way to say chunks (of anything) or groups (when talking about people).
So Pam's guess was right :)
Let's leave them in the wilds in small groups
this is my guess!! But Tia your guess is probably better than mine!
Pam
Yes, the translation is perfectly correct :-)
"s'en tirer" means to escape from a bad/dangerous/difficult/painful situation. We also use "se tirer d'affaire".
--> Il s'est tiré d'affaire, mais l'endroit est brûlé.
Hi Isabelle,
Never heard "le coeur en boule" before.
However, "en boule" is a slang expression meaning "angry", "furious".
If it doesn't fit the context, maybe it's a variant of "le coeur noué" which means sad and anxious.
the speaker is saying that he feels unwell:
"Mal a la tete. Le coeur en boule..."
"Head aches. Heart ???"
tia
isabelle
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